exercises for thickness

mengele

What exercises would people recommend for the various body parts for thickness rather than width.

As in I have come to a stage where I don't really want to become any wider in the upperbody but instead want to just increase thickness in the muscle areas.

Johnnyhpipe

You're trying to make muscles look bigger from one angle but not to look bigger when viewed from the front?I'm not sure that's even possible. Weightlifting + food builds muscle. Genetics will take over from there IMHO.

Brian?

I'm not sure I get the question.

Are individual muscles as wide as you want or are your shoulders as wide as you want.

Can you pick post pics to explain?

SomethingElse

According to my spam folder there's a pill for that

Alf Veedersane

I'm guessing it's front to back thickness.

In which case it would be exercises to target the traps and rhomboids, for example.

Rows.

Mellor

Johnnyhpipe wrote: »

You're trying to make muscles look bigger from one angle but not to look bigger when viewed from the front?I'm not sure that's even possible. Weightlifting + food builds muscle. Genetics will take over from there IMHO.

Work the area you want to build, don't work the area you don't want to build. Pretty straight forward.

mengele wrote: »

What exercises would people recommend for the various body parts for thickness rather than width.

A lot of the BB stuff like X for thickness and Y for width is nonsense were X and Y are largely similar variations. In general, width = lats, you aren't going make the lats specifically grower wider with one variation, and thicker with another. Focus on non-lat based exercises, like lower traps, rhomboids etc.
Also muscles that act on the shoulder than are located on the back, like the infraspinatus. Rear delt could hurt either